A Grateful Dead late-career highlight will be celebrated during on August 26th, when Lockn’ Festival headliners Dead & Company – featuring John Mayer with former Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann – will reunite with jazz veteran Branford Marsalis, whose collaboration with the band at Long This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Grateful Dead Members to Reunite With Branford Marsalis at Lockn’ Fest...
Baltimore duo Beach House unveiled a hypnotizing new song, “Black Car,” from their upcoming album, 7, out May 11th. The slow-burning tune boasts a mesmerizing mix of plucky synths twinkling over a woozy drone as dusty drums march underneath. Singer/keyboardist Victoria Legrand’s vocals hover This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Hear Beach House Hypnotize on New Song ‘Black...
Speaking to NPR in 2015, the late John “Jabo” Starks explained the origin of James Brown‘s famous dual-drummer lineup, which produced some of the Godfather’s funkiest tracks from the mid-Sixties through the early Seventies. “The saying was, when Clayton Fillyau was the drummer with James, he had just one drummer, one guitar This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: James Brown Drummer John ‘Jabo’ Starks: 5 Classic...
Soul singer Raphael Saadiq will embark on his first headlining tour in several years this July. The seven-date trek kicks off July 20th at First Avenue in Minneapolis and includes stops in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, New York and Boston. The run wraps July 27th at the Kennedy Center in This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Raphael Saadiq Plots Headlining...
John “Jabo” Starks, the drummer who helped anchor some of James Brown‘s biggest hits, died Tuesday, The New York Times reports. He was 79. Starks’ manager This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: James Brown Drummer John ‘Jabo’ Starks Dead at...
Brian Wilson is postponing his May tour dates in order to have back surgery “immediately,” he said on Thursday. “As some of you might know, I have been having some issues with my back that ha very recently gotten worse,” Wilson wrote This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Brian Wilson Postpones Tour Dates Due to ‘Immediate’ Back...
Liam Gallagher‘s new video As You Were song, “Paper Crown,” features a woman in a sequined dress going through a variety of emotions and literal self-reflection. Versions of This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: See Liam Gallagher’s Literally Self-Reflective ‘Paper Crown’...
Mark Howard, the innovative sound engineer behind two of Bob Dylan’s finest albums – Oh Mercy and Time Out of Mind – as well as landmark recordings by Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits, Neil Young, U2 and Emmylou Harris, is now fighting for his life. Just one year after Howard was diagnosed and treated for skin cancer, the disease has aggressively spread into his lungs This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Revered Sound Engineer Mark Howard Is Fighting for...
DJ Premier was still technically a college student at Prairie View A&M University in Texas when “Words I Manifest,” the first single from recently formed jazz-rap duo Gang Starr, was released in 1989. “I said, ‘Let me finish doing the music and if I really don’t make it, then I’ll get my degree and get a job,'” he tells Rolling Stone. “I still have 18 credits left to graduate.” He This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: DJ Premier: My Life...
Death Cab for Cutie will embark on a North American tour this fall in support of a new LP, which is set to arrive this summer. The trek kicks off in late September when the band plays the Life is Beautiful festival, taking place September 21st through 23rd in Las Vegas. Death Cab will play This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Death Cab for Cutie Plot North American...
With Cocaine and Rhinestones offering up so many incredible stories about some country-music legends, we also decided to spotlight some excellent podcasts made by the artists themselves. Some like to recall moments from their own storied pasts, others like to This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: 7 Musicians’ Podcasts You Need to...
The Tony Awards will honor Bruce Springsteen in June for his “once-in-a-life” production of Springsteen on Broadway. In a live-streamed ceremony on Tuesday announcing this year’s nominations, the Hamilton star Leslie Odom Jr. called Springsteen on Broadway a “theatergoing This article originally appeared on www.rollingstone.com: Bruce Springsteen to Win Special Tony Award for Hit Stage...